Jens Stoltenberg

See also: Electra

Passage epic of the Odyssey of Homère, taken again then in the form of tragedy at the beginnings of this one by Eschyle, Sophocle and Euripide in Ve century before our era, lÉlectre of Giraudoux seems the rewriting of the rewriting of a myth. With many anachronistic modifications, in particular the role of the couple middle-class like a burlesque mirage of the tragic couple, Electra is one of the many evidence of the Atemporalité of the Tragédie. Written in 1937, it would act indeed of a “middle-class tragedy”, according to Jean Giraudoux itself.

After the dead tragedy of Agamemnon, king d' Argos assassinated on his return of Troy, Electra, girl of this one and the Clytemnestre queen, seeks the culprit while feeling an unexplainable hatred for his mother. The arrival of Oreste, his/her brother exiled since the mysterious Assassination, and the Confession S of adultery made by the woman of the president of the senate to this one, will help Electra in her search which will finally lead it to being the object of the Malédiction which weighs on its family.

The Personnage éponyme directs his brother and is affirmed, it is really the main character.

The search of the truth

It is the main theme of the part. Electra comes from the Greek Elektra who means " the lumineuse". In fact, Electra is there to make the light on the events, to make burst the truth. Thanks to its presence, many characters will appear and make burst " leur" truth, such as for example the small Agathe in act II, 6. Moreover, Electra and Egisthe will be declared with the wire of the part.

The character of the beggar (at the same time god, beggar and director) contributes to restore the truth. it is him which explains " history of pushed or not poussé" , which tells the murder of Agamemnon but also that of Egisthe and Clytemnestre.

The last scene shows well that Electra, by restoring the truth, cursed herself and dispossessed, decimating the city. The glare of this truth was too violent. The last counterpart " That has a very beautiful name, Femme Narsès, that is called the aurore." finish the part on a delicious ambiguity.

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Literary comments of the principal scenes of the part

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